In seeking to test the conventional wisdom that foreign ministries are 'in decline', the contributors to this book examine the role and status of foreign ministries in twelve countries together with their place within the European Union. Valuable information on the response of the foreign policy machinery to change at both the domestic and international levels is provided as are important insights into the linkages between foreign policy and the mechanisms through which it is conducted. This book will be essential reading for those concerned with foreign policy-making in the post-Cold War era as well as those interested in the evolving machinery of government in its broader context.

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Coventry University, UK

Brian Hocking

About the editor

BRIAN HOCKING is Professor of International Relations at Coventry University. His publications include Localizing Foreign Policy: Multilayered Diplomacy, Non-central Governments (Macmillan, 1993) and (with Michael Smith) Beyond Foreign Economic Policy: the United States, the Single European Market and the Changing World Economy (Pinter, 1997).

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Book Title: Foreign Ministries
Book Subtitle: Change and Adaptation
Editors: Brian Hocking
Series Title: Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27317-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-69242-4Due: 17 February 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-69243-1Published: 23 February 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-27317-1Published: 27 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-3921
Series E-ISSN: 2731-393X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 281
Topics: International Relations, Political Science, European Union Politics

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction Foreign Ministries: Redefining the Gatekeeper Role

Diplomacy towards the Twenty-first Century

Australia Change and Adaptation in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Canada Trying to Get it Right: the Foreign Ministry and Organizational Change

France The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: ‘something new, but which is the legitimate continuation of our past …’ (Paul Claudel — Le soulier de satin)

Israel Succumbing to Foreign Ministry Declinism

Japan Towards a More Proactive Foreign Ministry

Malaysia Change and Adaptation in Foreign Policy: Malaysia’s Foreign Ministry

Mexico Change and Adaptation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norway The Foreign Ministry: Bracketing Interdependence

Russia The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Through Decline towards Renewal

South Africa The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: From Isolation to Integration to Coherency

United Kingdom The Foreign and Commonwealth Office: ‘Flexible, responsive and proactive’?

The United States The State Department’s Post-Cold War Status